Scrophularia vernalis, L.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 217

1. S. vernalis L. , Sp. Pl. 620 (1753).

Biennial or perennial; stems up to 100 cm, glandular-pubescent. Leaves 3-7(-15)cm, broadly ovate, acute to subobtuse, cordate to subtruncate at base, deeply doubly serrate, more or less pubescent. Bracts mostly leaf-like. Calyx-lobes oblong-lanceolate, obtuse to subacute, glandular-pubescent; margin not scarious. Corolla 6-8 mm, yellow, not 2-lipped, and with subequal lobes. Staminode absent. Capsule 8-10 mm, ovoid-conical, acuminate. 2« = 40. Mountain woods; also as an alien in damp waste places. From S.C. Germany and C. Russia southwards locally to the Pyrenees, Sicilia and C. Jugoslavia. Au Cz Ga Ge?Hs Hu It Ju?Po Rm Rs (C, W, E) Si [Be Br Da?He Ho Su].